The Spectator Australia

Minister for Climate Change and Energy Chris Bowen demonstrated his formidable negotiating skills even before he landed at COP31 this week, securing a coffee contract for the Australian pavilion at the bargain price of $32,000.

The $32,000 coffee contract is a mere bagatelle compared with Bowen’s pre-COP Fijian foreplay, which racked up $34.6 million in contracted commitments.

Even that pales beside the $147.8 million allocated to COP-related activities overall. And all of it is small change compared with the cost of making Australia’s electricity supply increasingly expensive, unreliable and weather-dependent.

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At last – at last – the worst kept secret in celebrity news has been released into the public domain. Spectator readers may not normally have much cause to praise the Guardian. But it is that newspaper’s valiant journalistic efforts that have finally seen allegations emerge about the sexual proclivities of the actor and comedian David Walliams. Allegations that have been discussed privately for years.

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David Walliams has been accused of preying on teenage girls, in two cases first initiating contact when they were 15 years old. The Little Britain star had used an injunction to block his name from being published, but it was dismissed in the High Court, and he has failed to appeal the decision.

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Is Vladimir Putin serious about ending his war on Ukraine? Or are the peace talks that began today in Abu Dhabi just a cynical smokescreen to buy time while Russian forces kick Ukraine’s cities to pieces?

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Anybody naive enough to expect Defense – sorry, War – Secretary Pete Hegseth to show any ounce of humility during his first press conference in six months will have come away disappointed, if not enraged, after today’s performance.

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